El Barça completes the summer market coup by officializing the signing of Rodri. The arrival of the midfielder raises some questions about the need to strengthen a midfield line that already has multiple high-level options. But it also presents strong arguments that have ultimately convinced Hansi Flick. This is his tactical profile.
A new forest fire has been declared this Wednesday in Aldea del Fresno (3,400 inhabitants) and has forced the confinement of this locality and the nearby municipality of Villamantilla (1,700). In the mid-afternoon, the Government ordered the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to join the extinction efforts in which about twenty ground crews and five aerial means from the Community of Madrid are already working, according to Emergencias 112 in a message sent to the media.
The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with advanced stage melanoma. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.
ChatGPT ads will arrive in Europe next week. Six months after testing them in the United States, free access to OpenAI’s popular chatbot will also have advertising. The company has announced that the ad-supported version will expand to 31 European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans will continue to be ad-free.
They dance, run, do somersaults, and even practice martial arts. Now they also trade on the stock market. Unitree, the company that has turned its humanoid robots and robot dogs into one of the most recognizable images of Chinese technological advancement, debuted this Wednesday on the Shanghai stock exchange and sparked euphoria among investors: its shares soared 629% as soon as they started trading. Why has this frenzy broken out?
The Israeli army announced this Wednesday that it has opened a criminal investigation into the shootings by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, in January 2024, against the vehicle in which the girl Hind Rajab was traveling and the ambulance that went to rescue her. That episode resulted in the death of nine people, including the minor.
Josep Cusí, the most loyal friend of King Juan Carlos, both at sea and on land, passed away in the early hours of this Wednesday, at the age of 92, at his home in Barcelona, surrounded by his family, who have been by his side tirelessly since a few days ago when his already fragile health worsened. Known for his close relationship with the King’s father, Cusí will be remembered as a kind man, a husband in love with his beloved Inés Muiños, father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather, a recognized athlete, promoter of nautical sports, and above all, for having a personality and innate elegance that earned him the affection of all who knew him, from kings and princes to the humblest of sailors. King Juan Carlos, upon learning of the fatal outcome of his faithful regatta and life companion, was the first to mourn the sad loss.
The pressure from the Popular Party on the Government does not cease due to the migratory crisis in Ceuta and will use its absolute majority in the Senate to censure, in the first plenary session of September, the ministers Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), José Manuel Albares (Foreign Affairs), Margarita Robles (Defense), Mónica García (Health), and Ana Redondo (Equality).
The Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has been temporarily suspended after testing positive for cocaine in a doping test last June during a tournament in Mallorca. This was announced this Wednesday by the ITIA, the International Tennis Integrity Agency, and the athlete himself through a long message on his social media.
The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.
